What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.

The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.

A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that

My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.